What is the correct use of auto?

[Robert Fraser]

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> I completely disagree.  Especially when your dogfood is good, you should 
> share it and not horde it for yourself.
> 
> Teaching newbies to program differently than you think is best seems 
> wrong to me.
> 
> -[Unknown]

I was thinking of "newbies to the library" instead of "newbies to the 
language". It's good practice in the language, but I remember trying to 
use a Mango servlet and spending an hour looking up what types were 
returned by functions in examples so I could figure out how to extend & 
change the example code.